Name: Modal
Author: Flux159

LABSCO SUMMARY

The credential work happens once, outside the server.

Authentication is Modal's own setup command, not an API key you paste into a config — so the server inherits whatever account the machine is already signed into, and there is no secret in the client configuration. What comes back is the part that matters: a link to a running application, which is a very short path from a script in a chat to something a colleague can open.

What it is

An MCP server that lets an assistant deploy Python scripts to Modal, the serverless compute platform. You hand it a script and ask for a Modal application; after the code is generated you get a URL you can open and share.

What you get

Deployment of a generated Python script to Modal, ending in a link to the running application
A workflow that pairs naturally with a filesystem server — the README's example config runs both, so the script can be read from disk and then deployed

Requirements

A Modal account, set up locally first: pip install modal then python3 -m modal setup, which is what authenticates the deployment. Run the server with uv --directory /path/to/mcp-server-modal run modal-server. The package is modal-server (version 0.1.0).

Setup effort

Build from source — git clone https://github.com/Flux159/mcp-server-modal

See installation options

USE CASES

01

Turning a script into something with a URL

Hand the assistant the Python and ask it to create and deploy a Modal application, then open the link it returns.

02

Sharing a prototype without a deployment story

Deploy from the conversation and send the resulting link, instead of writing infrastructure around a one-off script.

BEFORE YOU INSTALL

What to know first

Requires

uv on PATH
pip on PATH
Python 3.12 or later
A Modal account (python3 -m modal setup)

INSTALLATION

Connect your client

Server setup

TERMINAL

git clone https://github.com/Flux159/mcp-server-modal
pip install modal
python3 -m modal setup

MCP Clients

Claude Desktop

CLAUDE DESKTOP · JSON

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-server-modal": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "--directory",
        "<YOUR_PATH_TO_MCP_SERVER_MODAL>",
        "run",
        "modal-server"
      ]
    },
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem",
        "/Users/<YOUR_USERNAME>/Desktop/",
        "<YOUR_PATH_TO_OTHER_DIR>"
      ]
    }
  }
}

<YOUR_PATH_TO_MCP_SERVER_MODAL> is the full path of the folder you cloned. The second entry is the separate filesystem server the README runs beside it, so Claude can read your script from disk: /Users/<YOUR_USERNAME>/Desktop/ and <YOUR_PATH_TO_OTHER_DIR> are folders on your machine it may read. Delete the filesystem entry if you do not need it.